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Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Library.nu alternatives

Updated on May 28th, 2017

Are you looking for some good alternatives to the lost gigapedia, library.nu, legalreads.com, coinread.com, bookos.org or libgen.info?
Well, here is a list that I update quite often and whenever you (yes, you!) give me new entries (also anonymously in the comments below).PLEASE do not ask me to download something for you!

IMPORTANT Currently, many of you reach this page searching words like "en.bookfi.org alternatives", "library.nu alternatives" or "ebookoid", well I am not sure this will be the case in the near future... :( Due to the new guidelines against piracy, in the future, this post MAY NOT be listed among the search results you'll get from Google and/or Bing. For this reason, I suggest you to save this page as bookmark in your browser, if you want to be always able to reach it :)

The best library.nu alternatives ...

Just to be clear, *most* of the websites listed below DO NOT seem very legal, since they could host copyrighted material, as a consequence you use them at *your* own risk! Understood? Well!
In
this case, here are the alternatives to library.nu you were looking for.... and if
you know other links, just send me a message or leave a comment and I
will update this post!

An important note
Remember that piracy is a crime and keep in mind that knowledge requires time, work and money so it must have a (reasonable) cost!!!
Buy always the all books you *really* need, and if it can help you, consider their prices in terms of "cocktail ", "beer", "wine", "nutella-can" or "whatever-you-are-addicted-to" units...
I mean you can always (yes, always!!!) save money for a good book if you cut some nonessential expenses like the aforementioned alcoholic stuff... Just a suggestion!
Do not forget that, sometimes, you can get a very cheap copy of your book on Amazon, eBay or AbeBooks.
On this option, there are two wonderful websites that I highly recommend to use, before buying a new/used book:

About Amazon, there is also a link on the right ---->>>
If you really want to spend not even a penny, here is a very good repository with FREE scientific material and it is 100 % legal!http://freescience.info/index.php

Remember that "If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it away from
him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."Benjamin Franklin

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ebookoid.com is the guy who is the ebook king and has all the collection of library.nu which was also kept hidden from others. This greedy guy has all the ebooks of the world more than anyone else. He posted some ads on reddit. He has unique stuff but he is dying for money. In recent days, he has contracted the greed fever due to the money transfer mechanism of Amazon gift cards that can be bought for cash from Walmart stores. Thus, he has jacked up all his free ebooks (due to their presence on bookfi) to $0.01 which means he forces you to pay him something. In the past, his policies have been fitful and erratic. Often you would do lots of work or upload and he wont give you nothin for your work. I urge people to defeat this SOB by making a forum where to buy once and distribute many. I think this guy is some indian guy as he posted on reddit. Kim Dotcom disguised as a chinese from HongKong but turned out to be a German European. This guy might very well be an Israeli. These are nationalities for penchant for scam, hacking and greed like Madoff and Raj Rajaratnam. It would be different if they were like a true Robinhood giving to the poor.

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OK everything are fine but even in the days of the mighty library.nu, there was an even mightier place for searching and downloading for ebooks. Not that fancy looking as library.nu but with more powerful search and more importantly with more books!

And this is of course Library Genesis, or LG for short and the link is: http://libgen.org/(http://gen.lib.rus.ec/ is a search engine for LG but does not have all newer books)

LG is mostly about scientific books. It's the biggest heaven for scientific books in the whole galaxy!! :-)And its getting updated every day with requests from us(http://genofond.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=6399)

Downloading from LG is somewhat tricky. The usable links are [1] and [3] in the mirrors area.That's also another amazing advantage of LG, that its contents never die so you don't have to deal with the nightmare of dead links.

[3] is much faster but [1] contains ALL ebooks on LG but it's slower and it's STRONGLY advised to download it with a download manager(e.g flashget or IDM).

- bookfi.org is long gone- bookzz.org has been down for a few days; not sure if this is temporary- some alternative URLs to bookzz (apparently run by the same people) have come up, but I hesitate to post them right now